Ball High School - Purple Quill Yearbook (Galveston, TX)

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The History of Galveston True Document Told by Billy McNee1 In the year of 1572 Alfanso De La Galves sailed his rat-ridden, infested ship into a small harbor near some foreign island. He set his course for the following day and dropped anchor. As the sun set, the wind grew stronger, a tropical hurricane blew in over the island and the sea became very rough. At once Galves saw that this rotten ship would not stay afloat all night, so he gave the command to aban- don ship. His men, who now thought Galves was a coward, turned against him. They broke into the armory and stole three score cutlasses, pis- tols, and rifles. Then hurrying to the galley, they stole food for the trip to the island in a row boat. Old Stewpot VVhiskey VVerner had been chief cook and head of all cooking utensils and now took command of the merry ship Seven Sistersu or Look twice, your glasses need adjusting. Stewpot Wer- ner was the meanest looking varmint west of the thirty-first parallel. Not one man would cast his shadow on Stew, nor call him a liar, and live long. Cutlass Caulk, a red-haired devil, was now acting first mate. He carried two large cutlasses on his belt and two pearl-handled pistols to match. Cutlass Caulk had some of the wind taken out of his sails by getting in a brawl with old Stewpot, in which Stew hacked him up a little. Acting second mate was Horatio Bucket of Blood Bullock, one of the most fighting men on all the boundingmain. He killed three men with one blow of his cutlass because one of the varmints tried to steal his diamond inlay toothpick. Then there was Bad Mouthv Bock, nicknamed so because he was always getting bashed in the mouth with a couple of cutlasses for forgetting to report Aye-Aye, Sir when he was supposed to. Bock was a man to be feared, for in his day he would rip any man into pieces if he were a coward and didn't have the guts to strike back. Most of the time he picked the drunk ones. Yes, sir, that Bock was a brave one. Others of the crew were Killum', Crowder, Hoopdick Hernan- des, f'Butcher Brown, and the handsome cabin boy, Van Kirsch- ner Cincidentally, the now famous Van Johnson is a direct descendant of 'fVan Kirschnerj, who had a way with all the lovely girls. Kil- lumi' and Van', had been shanghaied and put aboard the Seven Sistersf, A 111

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